Daniel Mediati

Dr Daniel Mediati is a Chancellor's Research Fellow within the Australian Institute for Microbiology and Infection at UTS.

Daniel has won both national and international awards in recognition for his research, including the 2024 ASM Jim Pittard Early Career Award, the 2023 EMBL Corporate Partnerships Award and the 2021 FEMS P&D Early Career Award. He has published papers with 62 unique co-authors worldwide, including regular co-authorships with researchers from the UK, France and USA. He has been awarded multiple research grants including a university fellowship (2024-2028) and an NHMRC Ideas grant (2024-2026, in collaboration with UNSW's Prof Jai Tree). Daniel’s research program was the focus of a press article published in the technology and innovations sector of Forbes Magazine (2022), and several news releases from the Australian Academy of Sciences and ABC Radio (2023).

Daniel currently serves on the Editorial Board for the UK Microbiology Society’s flagship open-access journal Access Microbiology as a Junior Editor, and on the Editorial Board for the high-impact eLife journal as part of their highly-selective peer-reviewer mentoring program. He also serves as the communications ambassador for the Australian Society for Microbiology in NSW-ACT (2024-present).

Daniel is the current subject coordinator for 91132-Molecular Biology (summer semester) within the School of Life Sciences, UTS.